On Tue, 15 Feb 2000 03:39:53 GMT, philmic@home.com (Michael Phillips) wrote:

>I was wondering if you found out any more about an external mike? I am
>looking in purchasing GL-1 or Ez30u or Sony tvr900 and would like your
>input on your likes and dislikes of the GL-1. If you had a choice on the
>other two in my list would you still choose the GL-1?
>
>Thankyou in advance.
>
>Michael Phillips
>Michael.Phillips@usask.ca

As I pointed out in a post above, there are
(critical...) reviews of the above, and several
other mini-DV camcorders, in an article on my
web page (with frame-grabs from footage shot in
five different situations, with motion-video
descriptions, and with sound-color and
background-noise descriptions), at...
http://www.David-Ruether-Photography.com/camcorder-comparison.htm
Included also are WA converter recommendations.
For external mics, the selection of good, cheap,
1/8th" mini-plug mics is limited, and some of the
best have been recently discontinued, alas...
Of the few still available, I've had good results
with the Sennheiser MKE-300 (not always on the
TRV-900, though - and the Sony ECM-MS908C looks
promising, so I just ordered one in place of a
discontinued Sony ECM-Z157 which I like [but
which was on back-order since last August...]).
I did not like the sound-color of the GL-1 on
the sample I tried, but an external mic should
solve that problem.